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Performance
Articles and guides about Performance.
Your Website Is Slow: 10 Performance Fixes That Actually Matter
A practical guide to website performance optimization, fixes that cut load times, improve Core Web Vitals, and stop your slow site from killing conversions.
Load Testing: Find Your Breaking Point Before Users Do
Learn how to load test your application effectively. Find bottlenecks, set capacity baselines, and prevent outages before real traffic exposes weaknesses.
Search Architecture: When PostgreSQL Is Not Enough
PostgreSQL full text search works until it does not. Learn when your product needs dedicated search infrastructure and how to architect it without overengineering.
Caching Strategy: Redis, CDN, and Edge
A practical guide to caching at every layer of your stack. Learn when to use Redis, CDN, and edge caching, how they interact, and how to avoid the common pitfalls that cause stale data bugs.
Performance Optimization When Customers Start Complaining
A practical guide to diagnosing and fixing performance issues when customers report slowness, covering database tuning, caching, frontend optimization, and more.
How to Prepare Your App for a Product Hunt Launch
A technical checklist for preparing your app for a Product Hunt launch, covering infrastructure scaling, performance, monitoring, and post launch survival.
Scaling from 1,000 to 100,000 Users: What Breaks and When
Scaling a SaaS product from 1,000 to 100,000 users exposes bottlenecks at every layer. Learn what breaks at each stage and how to fix it before it costs you.
Algolia vs Typesense vs Meilisearch for Search
Comparing Algolia, Typesense, and Meilisearch on performance, pricing, self hosting, and developer experience. A practical guide for choosing a search engine.
Video and Media Streaming Architecture for Web and Mobile
How to build scalable video and media streaming into web and mobile apps. Covers transcoding, adaptive bitrate, CDN delivery, and real time streaming architecture.
Database Indexing Strategy: What to Index and When
Database indexes can make or break your application performance. Learn PostgreSQL indexing fundamentals, when to add indexes, when to avoid them, and how to identify missing indexes in production.
Technical SEO for Web Applications
A developer focused guide to technical SEO for web applications covering rendering strategies, Core Web Vitals, structured data, crawlability, and common SPA pitfalls.
The App Works But Nobody Uses It: Technical Fixes vs Product Fixes
Your app is stable and bug free but engagement is flat. Here is how to tell whether you need technical improvements or product changes, and where to invest first.
My App Is Too Slow and My Developer Cannot Fix It
Your app is slow, users are leaving, and your developer cannot figure out why. Here is how to diagnose performance problems and what to do when you need outside help.
Your Hosting Bill Tripled: How to Optimize Without a Full Migration
Practical strategies to reduce cloud hosting costs by 40 to 70 percent without rearchitecting your entire application or switching providers.
Moving Off WordPress: When a Custom Website Pays for Itself
WordPress served you well, but now it is slowing you down. Learn when a custom website pays for itself and how to migrate without losing SEO rankings.